My colleague and I are designing a new promotion system for our department and we keep hitting this wall where what seems 'fair' to each of us is completely different - she thinks we should ignore current salary disparities to avoid perpetuating them, I think we have to account for people's existing financial obligations, and we realized we're basically arguing about what we'd want if we didn't know our own positions.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are discovering that their intuitions about justice diverge fundamentally when they try to create systems that affect others.
“Where Are You with Rawlsian justice — the thought experiment?”
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